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by Steven Birdsall, SAP SAPinsider Companies must react swiftly to changing market conditions and adopt new innovations quickly to build competitive advantage. They expect their IT investments to fully integrate with existing landscapes, and they want flexibility in how they deploy the software. Read this article to learn how SAP Rapid Deployment solutions address the need for rapid adoption and quick implementation by combining standard SAP software, a streamlined deployment methodology, step-by-step deployment instructions, and enablement content for fast adoption at a fixed price.
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by Marco Valencia, SAP SAPinsider Most businesses want the latest and greatest functionality that SAP has to offer, but they don't always want the down time that comes with an implementation or upgrade. SAP, never blind to customer needs, has created enhancement packages to ease the upgrading process. This article describes the basic enhancement package concepts and outlines the required technical foundation to help you gain the most benefit from them.
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by Michael Rieder and Thomas DiAntonio, SAP SAPinsider No matter how effective a software solution is, there are always outside factors that can cause issues the company is not prepared to deal with. These companies, however, are not alone. SAP Enterprise Support takes a hands-on approach to helping customers reduce or avoid costs associated with unseen factors or tricky implementations. Through customer testimonials, this article shows how SAP Enterprise Support can help your company meet and exceed business requirements.
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by Robert Viehmann, SAP AG SAPinsider SAP Rapid Deployment solutions represent an exciting new model for SAP partners, customers, and the software industry as a whole. Learn how these solutions can not only be rapidly deployed, as the name suggests, but how they can also help you manage risk and achieve scalability and flexibility—all at a fixed price point and through your preferred delivery model.
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by Dr. Willi Petri, SAP AG SAPinsider This article teaches you step-by-step how to implement SAP’s latest SAP Business Suite innovations with enhancement packages, allowing you to apply the newest SAP NetWeaver technology to your infrastructure. The result? You’ll have the flexibility and technical know-how to add the functionality you need without revamping your entire landscape.
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by David Wascom, Summit Electric Supply SAPinsider Summit Electric Supply, winner of the 2010 ASUG Impact Award in the Small to Medium Enterprise category, has leveraged SAP solutions and ASUG offerings for the past five years to transform its business processes. SAPinsider caught up with David Wascom, Summit’s CIO, to learn how this forward-thinking SME achieved such impressive results.
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by Susanne Janssen, SAP AG, and Fayçal Hadjiat, EDF SAPinsider Load tests are critical for any company undergoing an implementation or upgrade. Yet too many companies overlook the most crucial load testing considerations. This article, which includes tips from Electricité de France’s hugely successful and productive load test project, explores a two-pronged approach to ensuring that your load tests — and your go-lives — are mistake-free.
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by Brian Greenberg, SAP SAPinsider Leveraging SAP Safeguarding services guarantees that you’re using the most complete and extensive knowledgebase around SAP solutions to manage an application life cycle. Review three best practices for optimizing the life cycle of your applications with these comprehensive offerings.
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by Tom Kennedy, BackOffice Associates SAPinsider Many SAP professionals rely on the ASAP methodology to manage SAP. But by adding just one additional step to this methodology, most SAP projects can save not only time, but also money and man-hours. BackOffice CTO Tom Kennedy explains how in this candid interview.
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by Hannes Kuehnemund, SAP AG SAPinsider Virtualization is here to stay — are you prepared? This article details two fundamentally different approaches to virtualization: the proprietary approach and the multi-vendor approach. Find out which is right for your company and what you need to do to make your virtualization implementation a success.
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